2015 NBA OFFS(EASON)

i guess i sorta feel like if the thunder made the finals with scott brooks they could prob make it with no coach, and there's prob a decent chance that donovan understands, like, basic lineup things that brooks didn't. if he doesn't know how to run or call plays nothing will have changed and we already know that durant and westbrook freelancing is good enough to get you close to a title.

they should have hired that spanish bro from the spurs though

def

and yeah the thunder are talented to win it all on talent alone if they can ever stay healthy but it doesnt seem like the wisest approach

tho lol at the image of some spanish guy with one year in the usa trying to correct years of westbrooks hard earned bad habits

maybe they hired a college coach just to yell at westbrook

i bet that will go great

yes it seems good

gotta think this makes the decision to jet all that much easier for durant. this was okc's opportunity to find a kerr-esque (perhaps inexperienced with head coaching but who gets the league and can relate to the players and win their respect) dude to help fix their offense and keep momentum and instead they get somebody who is going to have to struggle just to adjust to the nba period.

sam presti shd be locked in a room and only let out on draft day

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/amidst-riots--nba-guard-throw-bbq-in-baltimore-153835444.html

deep love for the people's champ

this was okc's opportunity to find a kerr-esque (perhaps inexperienced with head coaching but who gets the league and can relate to the players and win their respect) dude

A lot of these guys sitting around waiting for teams to offer them jobs?

Reggie Miller's available

So is hand down man down. Please let them both get hired this offseason.

stein says billy d to OKC is done

such a weird choice imo

you've got one season to keep a generational talent, let's bank on a new coach who will need that year to figure out how to work in the nba

we assuming durant is coming back healthy?

hoping certainly

losing durant to chronic injury would be an unthinkable bummer

feel like the fact that hes so light improves his chances of this not being chronic, really its like one injury that he got the less effective surgery on then came back too soon and reinjured, ie theres no pattern yet

i'm mostly just scared that okc's doctors who keep botching surgeries didn't fuck his foot up

i can sorta understand it from okc's standpoint in that if you're a franchise w/ little imagination then 'big name college coach' is an obv direction to go though 'we need to take that last step to a championship, who can get us there? i know, some dude who's never coached in the nba' is weird; brad stevens has done well but it's early yet and he is very much an anomaly, the only other case i can think of a coach making the college to nba jump from the past thirty or so years you can make a case for as a success is pitino's stint w/ the knicks. i get why donovan went there, other prominent college coaches who failed in the pros (calipari, pitino w/ the celts) went to situations w/ pretty dire talent so i can see thinking that's why they failed but it's such an immediate high pressure situation, not only w/ 'championship or bust' but also w/ 'keep yr stars happy' that it seems like a setup for failure in a different way. part of me also wonders in some way if this isn't on some level okc preparing for possibly having to rebuild in a couple of years time. let's say durant does walk, doesn't that increase their incentive to trade westbrook if only cuz losing both those guys and getting nothing in return is the kind of thing that when that franchise does recover odds are sam presti works someplace else.

donovan is an upgrade on brooks at least.

maybe!

the college game is generally very very badly coached

hiring college coaches is almost always a terrible idea imo brad was an exception he took no name teams to the champ game two years in a row just on being well coached, the last college coach to succeed in the pros was... no one

i mean larry brown did it but he coached in the aba before that, anyway all that was a long time ago

the mike montgomery warriors were so sad

college is such a different and worse game and culture and then you have this aspect where a ton of the success is based on recruiting so its hard to judge whos a good coach even at the college level much less who will be good in the pros where the game is so much more sophisticated and youre dealing w adult millionaires not naive kids who you can just yell at and manipulate emtionally

youd see a lot more college coaches in the pros cause teams are dumb and seduced by big names but most of the most successful ones understand not to mess with a good thing

imagine coach k landing in ucla after three seasons and one playoff appearance with the rockets

Conley could still play in the series. Swelling will be down within a few days. Mask him up and he'll be good. Bet he misses one game, two max.

he broke his face in three places and had two plates put in there im not medical doctor but it seemed like a pretty bad injury

i mean russ had a dent but iirc only one fracture

were in the wrong thread btw

donovan is a little different than a random college guy because of his team usa experience. not saying that matters but the familiarity with top guys and international ball should help.

yeah idk im not saying its nothing but thats m/l an exhibition

Lol posted that in two wrong threads.

ha

there have been coaches who made the jump and won championships (fitch, daly, brown) but it wasn't w/ the first nba job. even w/ the guys who do well or ok there's some experience as a nba assistant coach. there's more of a precedent w/ this kind of move working w/ the nfl and even there you're more likely to end up a spurrier than a jimmy johnson.

"the mike montgomery warriors were so sad"

Depressed just thinking about it

yeah being an assistant first is obvs a totally different story and is the logical and sensible path which i assume no big name college coach wld degrade themselves with

(fitch, daly, brown)

and even these guys were so long ago it really doesnt apply, brown coached pros before college also

and hes coaching college again right now as a matter of fact

someone should hire coach nick

o man i'd forgotten he coached all those years in the aba before the ucla stint

i just looked at his wiki lol

we shd steal all the money from the next ilx fundraiser and hire coach nick to post to ilh

feel like the fact that hes so light improves his chances of this not being chronic, really its like one injury that he got the less effective surgery on then came back too soon and reinjured, ie theres no pattern yet

MJ broke his foot and the rest of his career went ok